About this event
SCPL is excited to partner with the West Virginia Humanities Council for an exciting History Alive program highlighting the life of Thomas Ingles on Monday, June 2 at 6pm.
Thomas Ingles straddled two cultures before and after the birth of the United States. Born to a pioneer Virginia couple, William and Mary Ingles, Thomas was captured along with his mother in a frontier raid at the age of four, and was given to a Shawnee family in present-day Ohio to be raised in place of their deceased child. Returning to his birth parents as a Shawnee man at the age of 17, Thomas received a Virginia gentleman's education and served in the Point Pleasant campaign of Dunmore's War in 1774--a conflict that pitted his Virginia and Shawnee communities against each other on the battlefield. Conflict with his former Shawnee people continued through the Revolutionary War, when he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia.
Portrayed by Doug Wood of Hurricane
This presentation is a History Alive! program of the West Virginia Humanities Council.
For more information on the West Virginia Humanities Council History Alive programs, please visit: https://wvhumanities.org/.../histor.../history-alive-roster/